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This week
On the North Coast the tools are already ordinary. This week they ran into a Millennium Prize fight over credit.
Filed from Nehalem · Sept. 9, 2026 - AI boom, Navier-Stokes claim, and who still gets named.
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Restaurants, markets, kitchens.
Towns on the water.
From the lab and the sky.
Meetings, housing, the watershed.
Stages and studios.
On file
Leibniz’s mill, still open.
Essays
Can a machine be aware, or only look like it?
A way to score a claim without buying the story.
Disc-drive parts, a homemade table, a Michelson interferometer.
Reading
From around the web.
Nothing this week.
Clips
In other papers.
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